CNCF LFX Projects are Open for Spring Term 2021! Apply Now for a Mentorship Opportunity!
CNCF is again very excited to participate in the upcoming LFX (previously CommunityBridge) Spring Term from March 1st – May 31st. We have 15 Graduated, Incubating, and Sandbox projects participating with 35 project ideas available to mentees. Similar…
Rancher: an open source platform for cloud native applications
Guest post originally published on CloudOps’s blog by CloudOps team Rancher is a container management platform that helps DevOps teams adopt Kubernetes in a simple and scalable manner. It does so by offering a complete software stack that simplifies…
TechGenix: “Kuma: A Modern Multizone Service Mesh for Containers and VMS”
Envoy is likely the most important open-source project in the cloud-native networking space. Without it, we wouldn’t have a service mesh like Istio. The Envoy team recently announced Envoy Mobile, which looks to manage mobile applications with the same…
A guide to setting up Kubernetes Service Level Objectives (SLOs) with Prometheus and Linkerd
Guest post originally published on Buoyant’s blog by Kevin LeimkuhLer SLOs are a lot easier with a service mesh in hand In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to easily create service health SLOs on Kubernetes with Prometheus, an open…
CNCF Releases Free Training Course Covering Basics of Service Mesh with Linkerd
Introduction to Service Mesh with Linkerd is the newest training course from CNCF and The Linux Foundation. This course, offered on the non-profit edX learning platform, can be audited by anyone at no cost. The course is designed…
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA Virtual sponsor guest post from Lin Sun, Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM At ServiceMeshCon EU this August, William Morgan from Linkerd and I gave a joint talk entitled service mesh is still hard. …
The truth about the service mesh data plane
The exploration of service mesh for any organization comes with some serious questions, including:* What data plane should I use?* How does this tie in with my existing API infrastructure?* What kind of overhead do sidecar proxies demand?…
Security in the world of service meshes
This talk will provide a comprehensive picture of security within the world of service meshes. We will start with an introduction of the key security concepts and describe the key system components that implement those concepts. This will…
Forbes: “Why Is The Open Source Community Excited About K3s Project Joining CNCF?”
Hot on the heels of KubeCon+CloudNativeCon, Rancher Labs announced the acceptance of K3s by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It’s joining the likes of OpenTelemetry, Network Service Mesh, Longhorn and 30 other projects in the Sandbox.
Navigating the service mesh ecosystem
When Kubernetes container orchestration meets a modern microservices architecture, this inevitably increases needs related to traffic management, observability, access control, and much more. The service mesh pattern for these needs is implemented numerous ways across the ecosystem, and…